The Sun. — London, England, 1838-08-31 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The addresses presented to the Marquis of Normanby, in the course of his progress through the west of Ireland, will be found worth the attention of any who may wish to satisfy themselves of the degree of enthusiastic devotion to her Majesty's Government which happily prevails in that long-alienated portion of the empire. While the influence of the Tory faction continues sufficiently powerful to arrest the progress of legislative justice towards the Irish people, it is manifestly of importance, beyond all calculation, that the opposite spirit should possess and animate the Execu tive, and that there should thus be at least one safeguard for the stability of the British power, and the maintenance of the connection between the islands. The popularity of the Marquis of Normanby's Administration saves us from the natural results of the tyrannous and insulting proceed ings of the House of Lords ; and when we reflect that this branch of the Legislature has now for four consecutive Sessions withheld the most reasonable, the most just, and the most moderate demands of Ireland, we cannot con template the Government which, notwithstanding this mighty obstacle, has strengthened the bonds of union and allegiance, with out as much surprise as delight at its suc cess. Manifestly there is but one thing wanting at this moment to that thorough incorporation of the two countries which the interests of the empire so urgently require, and which the wise statesman and the true patriot will always propose as the grand end of his measures, and object of his policy. Let the Legislature only imbibe the enlight ened and benignant spirit of the Government—let the same liberal, impartial, remedial, and healing policy which has been pursued by her Majesty's representative, be imitated or adopted by those from whom alone the redress of the greater wrongs and the accomplishment of the larger objects of the Irish people can proceed—and what cause, what foun tain of disunion or discord between England and Ireland would remain ?—what but the Irish Sea would distinguish or divide them? We have now before us the excellent ad dress of the county of Roscommon to the Lord Lieute nant, and we put it to aay man in England, whom nature ; has not cursed with an abstract passion for anarchy and confusion, whether the existence of a Government which has created such a feeling in Ireland as this docu ment is a proof of, is not, as far at least as that country is concerned, a 'Taming of the very first order ? The address commences by assuring his Excellency of the " cordial con currence of her Majesty's subjects of this country in the policy of his .rievernrnent, and of their sincere gratitude for the anxiety he has evinced to promote the interests of Ire land." Did the ear of Tory Viceroy ever hear language like this ? Did the county of Roscommon ever address a Talbot or a Haddington in this style and sentiment? Who but the Orangemen ever concurred in the policy of an Orange Government, or poured forth their grateful ac knowledgments at its feet ? The address continues, " Ani mated with sentiments of devoted attachment to the person of our beloved Queen, we feel that the ties which unite the people to the Throne are best cemented by the delegation of its power, as at present, to one who has the intelligence to adopt and the energy to execute whatever measures, compatible with the laws, may best conduce to the improvement and pacification of the country." A compliment like this may have been paid to a Tory Lord-Lieutenant by the Dublin Corporation, or perhaps by a Tyrone Grand Jury ; but we venture to say. that no great body of Irishmen ever paid a Tory Governor such a tribute. To be sure the Tories are indifferent what the people of Ireland think about their Viceroys ! Are they ? We have a shrewd suspicion that a little Irish popularity would not be so very unpalatable after all. The grapes are sour only because they are nut of their reach. " For the best administration of the existing laws," continue the people of Roscommon, " are indebted to your Ex cellency : if they are not in every instance in unison with the wishes and circumstances of the people, we appreciate on the one hand the difficulties that interrupt their amendment, and on the other we feel that under your paternal government they have been divested of much of their former evils, by being freed from their past partialities." Here we have the only mode in which it is possible for a Liberal Government to exhibit its benevolent spirit, in the present state of parties and temper of one branch of the Legislature, very happily alluded to. Such a government cannot pass good laws ; but it can palliate the operation of bad laws. Such a go vernment cannot place the order of society upon a perma nent and solid basis ; but it can preserve that order not withstanding, and it is the only government that can do so. The followir ' i remark is admir a bl e :—" If there be tho s s. who fancy that the balance of justice is unequally held in the hands of your Excellency, it is because it has so long preponderated in one direction that they have become habituated to its inclination and cannot understand its ad ;ustment. • Unticr your Excellency's administration all participate in equality of advantages:" Men who have been long used to think the crooked straight, naturally think the straight crooked, when, instead of the zig-zag, they are presented with a right line. The eastern prince who had a harem of withered hags, and imagined them the loveliest of their sex, felt of course infinite repugnance at the sight of youth and beauty ; and it is just the same with the Irish - Tories, who have been so long familiar with the embraces of corruption and injustice, which they mistook for the fairest forms of Government, that when its true excellencies are set before them, instead of . recognising their perfection, they turn away from them with disgust. However, we arc all creatures of circum stance and habit ; even the Tories are subject to this great law, and even the Tories will begin to discern and admire the line of moral beauty, when it has been suf ficiently long and steadily submitted to their vision. The permanence of the present Irish Government is all that is wanting to make even its enemies admit its merits. Virtue needs only to be seem said a sige of antiquity, to make all men love and follow her. A mere glance, however, at her perfect form is not sufficient : she must tarry in man's presence, and suffer the childrt n of vice to gaze upon and inure themselves to her charms.—tl'forning Chronicle. Our limits preclude our offering more than a cursory ,notice of the tissue of misquotations and jesuitry contained in the columns of a Contemporary Journal on Monday last with reference to our remarks on the state of our foreign relations. Our Contemporary accuses us of having stated that Cracow is one of the most important commercial emporiums on the continent ;" and adds, " the Times indeed says that Cracow offers us a direct communication with the Black Sea, the Baltic, and the Adriatic.' But unless the map of Europe greatly deceives us, it is just possible that our own goods might get to the Baltic and Adriatic by a shorter and more direct course than by going through Cracow, and it is not improbable that they might reach the Black Sea by the Mediterranean or the Danube fully as cheaply as by being tug ged thither ov er l an d th roug h Cra cow." Is this th manner in which Lord Palmer ston defends the sacrifice of " his flt. 'l, I , is reputation, and his character," pledged to protect our commerce by the appointment of a British Consul to the re public of Cracow, and evades the question of his connivance in the extinction of the rights of 21,000,000 of Poles to the " free navigation of the rivers and canals in the whole extent of ancient Poland !" What the Times did say was as follows :—" Cracow,' in the enjoyment of the rights guaranteed to it by the European Powers, be comes the most important commercial emporium on the continent. Situated on one of the noblest rivers of Europe, it possesses mines of zinc, silver, coal, salt, and marble. Entitled to freedom of commerce and direct intercourse by steam navigation with all the worlds it offers, within 170 .-.miles of its frontier, a direct communication with the Black Sea, the Baltic, and the Adriatic." The ingenious in sertion by our Contemporary of the monosyllable " us" is the foundation for his assertion that we consider Cracow the cheapest and shortest route for our goods to the Baltic, the Adriatic, and the Black Sea. But," says our Contemporary, " the Times is de termined to distinguish itself in smartness as well as in geography." After the laboured specimens in the Portfolio of Lord Palmerston's geographical precision in reference to the limits of the independent municipalities of Circassia, and the site of Soucljouk Kale, we should have been surprised at his Lordship's ignorance of the course of the Vistula, of the Dniester ' and of the r a il roa d i n progress from Cracow to Vienna and Trieste, had it not been mani fest that his Lordship mistakes, innocently no doubt, the Republic of Cracow for Poland. " Perhaps," says his Lordship, alluding to our trade with the provinces of the ancient kingdom of Poland, " the economist of the Times will tell us what is the amount of the produce of Cracow in cotton and tobacco ?" Our Contemporary proceeds to say—" the Times ought to blush at being ignorant of the fact, that the treaty of 1827 related to nothing but the paci fication of Greece, and had no more to do with the French expedition to Algiers than it had to do with the affairs of China." We cannot pass so lightly over this misinterpreta tion of a treaty the most important in its stipulations, in its effects, and in its probable consequences, t hat has been contracted in modern time s. The treaty of July the 6th, 1827, as explained by Lord Dudley, by Lord Aberdeen, and by Count Nesselrode, was the compliment of the " act of the Congress of Vienna," in so far as it debarred either of the three contracting Powers from violating the treaties of Vienna, which had definitively adjusted the limits and influence of each separate State, and the commercial rights of all. England, who bad refused her c oncurrence in the internal affairs o f the continental Powers in the affairs of Spain, Piedmont, Naples, and the South Ame rican Republics, did consen t to in tervene in the affairs of Turkey, with the view, not of separating, but of re conciling and re-uniting her divided Provinces, and depriving Russia of a pretext for aggrandizement by a se parate intervention. The condition on which alone Eng land agreed to act, first with Russia, and secondly with Rus sia and F:euice, to effect that reconciliation, was,. that " the contracting parties will not seek in these arrange ments any augmentation of territory, any exclusive influ ence,or any commercial advantage for their subjects, which those of every other nation may not equally obtain." So completely was the maintenance of the integrity of the Turkish empire the condition of the alliance, that Count Nesselrode, even whilst complaining of the separate wrongs of Russia, thus defines the meaning of the treaty :—" It is sufficient," he says in his dispatch to Prince Lieven of the 6th of January, 1828, " for the Emperor to have signed an agreement with his allies to insure his adherence to the principles which it establishes." " The first and the most essential of all this is that which prohibits to the Powers who signed the treaty of London conquests and exclusive advantages. His Majesty has already announced that in any supposable casehe will never de%•iatefrom it." In what terms can language more clearly define the obligations contractedby the three Powers towards Turkey, towards each other, and to wardsmankind, or what stronger pledge could have been given to all other nations of the absence of ambitious views on the part "of Russia and France, whilst preparing their squa drons for the Levant, than the very words of the treaty itself? With regard to the treaty of July, 1827, having had nothing to do with the French expedition to Algiers in 1830, the assertion is a mere quibble. The • retention of Algiers by France, after her repeated acknowledgment of the supremacy of the Sultan in that province, is a distinct and palpable violation of the conditions of the treaty of July 7, which restricted the power of the three contracting parties within the limits assigned to them by the treaty of Vienna. With reference to our charge against Lord Pal merston of having recognized the blockades of Mexico and Buenos Ayres before , they had been approved of or even been known by the Government of France, it may suf fice to refer our readers to the letters of Mr. Backhouse and Mr. Mandeville, inserted in the Times of the Ist and 7th of June.—Tinges. The Tithe Commissioners for England and Wales have just published a manifesto as to their " views and intentions" in regard to the employment of " the compulsory powers" with which they have been invested, for the purpoie of ef fecting commutations of Tithe ! Bythis document it would appear, that the work of commutation goes briskly on. " During the last six months 1,003 voluntary agreements have been received." Such is the statement of the Com missioners! The necessity of Tithe-commutation—the ne cessity in other words, of getting rid of much scandal and clamour, and, it may be, of some real evils, has long been apparent to reflecting men ;—but the principles on which a general scheme of Tithe-composition ought to be effected, might admit of much doubt, and give rise to great diversity of opinion ! We incline strongly to question the soundness of the principles on which the Ministerial plan of Tithe commutation is based ! Tithes have, during a very long period, been denounced by a particular section of " reformers," on the ground that they affect the culti vation of the soil, in a most injurious fashion. Tithes are alleged, by the whole tribe of political economists, to operate very differently from rent, on the labours of the farmer. Rent (according to the theory of that class of speculators) is a fixed quantity—fixed at all events, for a term of years. But tithes are described as a fluent—as a burden that increases, or decreases, directly, as the amount of labour and capital expended by the farmer, increases, or decreases ! Hence, tithes have been characterised as the most injurious of all the imposts to which the cultivators of the soil can be subjected —as an impost, repressive of agricultural enterprise—and, therefore, as an impost, from the influence of which, the public suf.l fers to a remarkable extent ! Into the soundness of this theory—into the accuracy of the reasonings by which it is supported, we do not intend, now, to inquire. We are content, for the moment, to assume that the econeenical theory is the correct one ! That theory, let it be observed, seeks to establish the noxiousness of tithes, ,by seeking to prove that the existence of tithes is most injurious to the public ; in other words, to the consuming classes. Be it so ! If, however, the public suffers from the existence of the tithe system, the public ought, undoubtedly, to bear the cost of the system of tithe-commutation. But such is not the principle on which the ministerial scheme of com mutation proceeds. No :—although the burden of tithes is alleged to rest upon the public, the burden of com muting tithe is destined to rest upon the class of land oWners ! The economists do, indeed, assign a reason for this arrangement. They are aware that untithed land yields, proportionably, a higher rent than land subject to tithe ; and they argue, that if tithe were abolished universally, tithe land would, universally, rise in value ! It is in ac cordance, therefore, with this process of reasoning, that, as the class of landowners may be expected to reap the benefit of tithe-commutation, the class of landowners should be saddled with the cost of the experiment ! Amidst the play of their arguments on this point, however, the economists are apt to forget the original ground of their fierce opposi tion to tithes. That ground was the interest of the public. The public, we were assured, paid the tithes—and, the; e ' fore, tithes were to be got rid of, at all hazards. But if, as' we have already stated, the public really bars the burden of tithe, the public, undoubtedly, ought to pay the price required for removing that burden If, on the other hand, it be true (as the economists also allege) that the land owners ought to sustain the expense of the process of tithe-commutation, because they are to reap the benefit of that commutation—why, th.-n, it necessarily follows that the economists' special friend—the public—does not—and that the_ landlords do, in truth, baor the bur den of the present tithe system ! Both propositions of the economists in regard to tithes, cannot, in short, be true ; but the economists have, at all events, succeeded in per suading the landowners of the congruity of these two con dradictory propositions. The landowners have, in other words, fallen into the economical tithe-trap, as, in 1819, they fell into the economical currency-trap. The results trill will prove as dec:dedly injurious to the landed interest in the case of tithes, as in the case of currency—although not injurious, to the same•extent ! It is exceedingly doubtful, be it observed, ehether the value of tithed land will ski) at all—or more, at all events, than to a very slight ex tent—in . consequence of the commutation of tithes ! True, there is, at present, a considerable difference between the market value of tithed, and of tithe-free land ;—but that result arises from the circumstance, that the market value of tithed land is regulated by the market value of land free from tithe—and tithe-free land, under the present system, com mands somethinj like what the economists style a monopoly price. But when all the land of England and Wales shall he rendered tithe-free the fair presumption is that tithe free land will sink in market value! in other words, when tithe shall be commuted, the price of agricultUral produce will, in all probability, decline—and the landowners will, therefore, in all probability, find themselves cheated in the prospect which has been held out to them, of realising the difference which now obtains between the rents of tithed land, and of land that is tithe-free ! The public, that is to say, the consuming classes—do now, we believe, bear the burden of tithes ; and when tithes shall be commuted the consuming classes, it will be found, will reap all the advan tage of the change ! The tithe-commutation scheme is, in short, another wholesale act of robbery perpetrated by the Whig economists on the landowners of England !—Morn ing Herald. It is truly ludicrous to find public writers of the Tory school extolling the Corn-laws as essential to the welfare of the country, and, at the same time, affecting great concern for the working classes, and making a vain and futile at tempt to write down a Liberal Government as the origi nators and supporters of the Poor-laws, and other measures of a Malthusian character, as they are pleased to term them. Down with the Poor-laws, say these writers, and down with all those measures of Whig origin which tend only to create distinctions of an invidious and hateful na ture between the labouring population and the aristocracy. It should be first shown, however, that the Poor-laws have this tendency ; and when this is done, care should be taken to prove that the laws which these wholesale condemners uphold are of another character. Every means has been adopted to misrepresent the Poor-laws and to deceive the lower classes in reference to them. Efforts of every kind have been resorted to for the purpose of exciting public prejudice against them. But what ends have the traducers had in view ? Under pretence of caring for the poor, they have been endeavour ing to promote their own party purposes, and to get them selves, or the leaders of their clique, once more elevated t office. There was one Judas, a Conservative, of course, and withal a traitor, who affected the same concern for the poor. But he had the bag, and had what was put therein at his disposal, and hence his desire to promote contribu tions to the poor. The Tories, happily, have not now the bag ; but we know how they eared for the poor when they had the control of it, and this knowledge will enable us to appreciate their loud protestation s of anxiety for the wel fare of the lower classes. They who, when they were in power, failed not to oppress the labourer, and make pre tence of doing him service, paid his wages in part out of the bag entrusted to them, to wit, the parochial purse, are not the parties to obtain public credence when they , boast of their great desire, their disinterested solici tude, for the elevation and domestic comfort of the poor. They who have lost the opportunity of paving their labourers in this way, or whose tenants, with whom they condole, have lost it, may possibly have an other motive for their denunciations of the Poor-laws than that which they desire to have credit for. That philan thropy is to be suspected, that benevolence cannot fail to be mistrusted, which springs out of party spirit. It may happen that the same motives that influence these gentle men of the Tory school to contend for the necessity of the Corn-laws, under pretence of promoting the interests of the agricultural labourer, may stimulate them to abuse the Poor-laws and vilify their originators. Nothing can be m ore certain than that the working classes w ill b e very sus picious of that love and kindness, and that zeal for their welfare which manifests itself in an article or a speech to dey in favour of the Corn-laws, and in another to-morrow for their exclusive benefit in reprobation of the Poor-laws. What is the spirit of the Corn-laws but a decidedly exclu- THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1838. sive spirit ? And what their language but that of aristo cratic pride and overbearing arrogance ? " Whereas," sa: they in effect, " certain classes of the people, commonly known as the productive classes, were sent into the won't for the sole purpose of labouring for the advantage of tic aristocracy of Great Britain, or 'the landed interest,' ts they are usually styled ; and whereas high rents, whidi are absolutely necessary to the enjoyment of those luxuri!s of life, and to the maintenance of that state, and dignity, and distinctive character, to which we have been, frau time immemorial, accustomed, can only be maintained oy the prohibition, by means of high duties, of all for* corn ; be it therefore enacted, despite all disastrous cm sequences which are likely to acccrue to the aforemin tioned productive classes," &c., &c. Who can do otter wise than smile, if he do not even indulge in a hearty laugh, when be finds the supporters of such laws denoule ing the new Poor-laws, and other measures of the Liberal party, as exclusive, and tending' to injure and degrade ,he poor? Who can avoid feeling disgust, when the out-ald out friends of the starvation laws, as the measures adored for excluding foreign corn from our markets have been aptly called, set up for advocates of the rights and inte rests and honourable position of the poor? However, this much is certain, that nothingcan be more necessary - than that the working classes should be well advertised of the sympathy, and compassion, and tenderness which their Tory and pro- Corn-law friends cherish in reference to them. Nor can . anything be more needful than that their new friends should themselves make proclamation of their ultra bene volence, and their zeal in the cause of poverty and distress. The cheering and animating intelligence might otherwise never reach those for whom it is designed. True it is, that the best Friend the poor ever had, he who preached the Gospel to them, healed their diseases, and went about doing good, and making them the chief objects of his bene volent labours, has warned us not to be " as the hypocrites, who sound a trumpet before them ;" but then the urgency of the case, its absolute necessity, will prove an apology for these friends of the Corn-laws and the poor, Now that wheat is at 84s. the quarter, and likely to be higher, how could the lower classes possibly be acquainted with the friendly and kindly feelings which are cherished towards them by the Tory supporters of the Corn-laws, but for the assurances and loud protestations of the latter. Nay, nothinc , can be more pardonable, because nothing can pos sibly be more requisite, than the daily reiteration of the SECOND announcement. It is most desirable that the poor should know, and not be allowed to forget, who are their true friends.—Morning Advertiser. The London Journalists who are, or appear to be, in the interest of Mr. O'Connell, take pains to lead their readers astray as to Conservative statements and arguments re specting Irish politics. When, for exam* we, and others of our party, dwell upon the undeniable fad, that the Irish Romanists were a thousand times more tranquil under the severest pressure of British power than the ., now are, after so much has been conceded to them, the &Connell Jour nalists exclaim, with well-affected horror-e" See there ! there is Toryism - for you—these men are easel oppressors in their hearts, and that which they most ardmtly desire is to re-enact the penal laws." For such a representation as this there is not the slightest ground, nor could any conjecture so monstrous be hazarded, if tie whole of the matter were fairly stated. The statement of the better behaviour of the Romanists under the pressure of the severest laws against them, is not an abstract statement, much, less is it a statement made for the purpose of advocating or encouraging a renewal of these stringent laws. But it is a reply to the allegation of Mr. O'Connell's partisans, that there would be no agitation but for the tyranny of the Tories, in not yielding to the present demands of Mr. O'Connell. We say that expe rience (the best witness that can be called into Court upon such an occasion) proves that this allegation deserves no 'credit. Instead of restrictive laws being the cause of Irish agitation, we learn, when we call upon experience to state the facts, that agitation never was so little as when restric tive laws were greatest, and that continually as the asserted cause of agitation has been removed, the agitation has be come greater than it was before. Is it to be expected— ought it in fairness to be expected—that, knowing these facts, we should not state them, in opposition to the assertion so confidently put forth by the O'Connellist journals, that the existing restrictive laws are the .cause, and the reasonable cause, of Irish agitation ? Upon the important question, whether or no the political system of Romanism may by any means (short of severe penal laws) be made consistent with the tranquillity and safety efa Protestant State we are, happily, not called upon to offer any decided opinion. The history of this country for the last sixty years certainly does not decide the question in the affirmative, and the experiment has not been conducted with such skill, or for such a length of time, as would justify us in a peremptory decision in the negative; We, therefore, do not ask for a re-enactment a the penal laws. We do not say that any such thing is necessary. Wo do not know that it is possible. We do say, however, that so far as the experlment has gone, the enthusiastic prognostications of those most opposed to penal ' and restrictive laws have been completely disappointed. Do we rejoice in this ? God forbid. We wish that the Rornaniste of Ireland were tranquil and prosperous, and trustworthy even as the English and Scotch are. But while we know they are not, we shall 'not be so forget ful of the blessings of our Protestant Constitution e shall not be so mad with faction,. or so crazy with maudlin " liberality "—as to make no dis tinction between faithkss enemies and faithful friends. They who exclaim so vehemently against British stillCo n s e e s r e v r a e t i i s ‘ e •e d s for against what t . h t e h e l y ri call sh, o o t g y i 7 b to make a llow a nce f or th e wa y i n w hich Conservatives have treated, and for the share which they (the complain ninnycoamnidnon candour oppression, complain ants) have had in that treatment. Supposing it true, as the O'Connellists &lege, that the treatment of the :rish by the Tory party—say from 1800 to 1828—was opressive and harsh, still it was equally true that they who now com plain, admitted in 1829 that this bad treatment was com pletely at an end, and that the Irish had no longer any thing to complain of. We would very respectfully entreat our Contemporary the Globe, for instance, to turn to its own file of March and April, 1829, and after reading there the ably and correctly written articles upon Ireland end the Tory policy with regard to that kingdom, to tell us candidly how it can reconcile its accounts of the free and emanci pated conditiOn of Ireland at that time, and of the tranquil prosperity which was to be anticipated, witl: the pie lures of Tory oppression and cruelty which it now draws. There have been no restrictive laws passed since then. The hurthen of the Established Church (as it is called) has not been increased since then. But e at that time there was no whisper against the Established Church heard from the Romanists. No ;it was their interest to deceive, and they did deceive ; and the Globe, whether knowingly or unknow ingly, aided, and very powerfully aided, in that deceit. Much is said of Road gist irritatimeLbut have we Pro testants no cause for irritation ? Were ever men so syste matically, so grossly, so impudently cheated, as we have been by the Irish Romanists ? And is it not rather too much that the English Whigs, who, were either deceived as well as we, or took part in the deceit—is it not rather insufferable that now they shall change their note, and charge us with oppression, whom they did laud for our liberality ? The Tories granted eman cipation, but they granted it on the plainly under stood and expressed condition that the Protestant Church was not to suffer in its security. The Romanists asserted that all its insecurity had been owing to the withholding of emancipation, and that they being once emancipated its future peace and safety were certain. Did the Whigs object to this? Not they.; they re-echoed the statement, and the organ of the party—the precise and pithy Globe of that day was the most earnest in maintaining that the Tory party had done the best thing possible for the Protestant Church in Ireland bygranting emancipation. Shall there be no allow ancet foundha t tmht that a d fit e r allsf o t r ut P hs r s o m t w e a a s d t se a u an by yr s e u t shpeie craft,Rio ° a mni a ea n rn d ei sigtr gross o i t so a sf t i r o tah n s ee w a h li et Legisla tive and o i d s e c hu r p ch o w i e a r r r e a l n a t o e d d a t s h e w m re w tc a li s ed to as render s t l l a r e t i v Established Church in Ireland as wretched as Legislative persecu tion could ma k e i t? Is it not' monstrous that the Whig ho lc a j pao g o brn a u ooc i rtnueensrdsatetel laboured s t nt t h ot s s e sot s ht h E hl eooasua Romaniststtl long b w l a n i i t s o h h d w o e udsjtoo fear that- e n aahuroe w ;et civilhhst eu t w h i hefyeresdetaueeoldct persuade h i met t erh f :y u eu l yt iahtd ß maetw o i ga m ßhs a tr Romanists ell which was partici pation of legislative privileges, all they wanted, or would ever contend for? When we urge in forevery e been purpose the continual system of the Romanists, and that therefore no dependence whatever is to be placed upon any state ments which they now make, or which are made on their behalf. It is at present held out to the nation by the Whigs that if such and such things were granted to the Romanists in Ireland, they would not agitate any more. We say that the Whigs have been making similar assertions any time these thirty years past ; but as fast as the things they pointed out were granted, new agitations arose for something else ; and instead of the Whigs confessi ng t h a t they had,been wrong, they renew the old impud en t cry of " concede this, and then you w i ll have peace." O ur Toryism, then, consists in adhering to facts, and in demand ing that cheats and liars shall be treated as cheat s an d liars, and not as trustworthy men.—MorningPost. SU NT OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. OF THIS EVENING. CROWN-OFFICE, AUG 31. WAR-OFFICE, AuG._3l. BANKRUPTS. THE IRISH LA TR APPE.—It is stated th at amongst the recluses at Mount Melleray , the religious and agric u lt ura l establishment in the county of Waterford, so recently visited by Mr. O'Connell, a monk was discovered who once shone conspicuously in the musical world, and at the Opera in London particularly. Signor Ambrogetti is said to have joined the monks of La Trappe before they were expeHeil from France, and to be now a member of the Irish branch of this rigorous and laborious community of ascetics.... Globe. EDITION. THE LONDON GAZETTE MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. BOROUGH OF GREAT YARMOUTH—WiIIiam Wilshere, of Hit chin, in the county of Herts, Esq. 7th Regiment of Foot—Captain T. R. Baker to be Major, by purchase, vice Lord W. Thynne, promoted ; Lieutenant G. G. Glover to be Captain, by purchase, vice Baker ; Ensign Hon. W. Pakenham, from the 52d Regiment, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Glover, Aug. 31. 5 . 3 d Foot--Captain FL S. Phillips to be Major, by purchase, vice Butler, promoted; Lieutenant R. Dyott to be Captain, by purchase, vice Phillips; Ensign W. R. Mansfield to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Dyott ; H. M. Atkins, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mansfield, Aug. 31. 69th Foot.—Capt. lion. C. S. Clements, from the half-pay of the 35th Regiment, to be Captain, vice W. T. Smyth, who ex changes, Aug. 31. Lieut.! H. D. O'Halloran to be Captain, by purchase, vice Clements, who retires ; Ensign W. Coates to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice O'Halloran, Sept. 1. 76th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel A. F. Macintosh, from the half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice E. Studd, who exchanges, receiving the difference, Aug. 31. 79th Foot—Lieut. G. W. Denys, from the half-pay of the 15th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Carter, promoted, Aug. 31. Royal Newfoundland Veteran Companies—Lieutenant A. J. Macpherson, from the half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant, vice J. Grant, who exchanges, receiving the difference, Aug. 31. UNATTACHED. _ _ _ To be Lieutenant-Colonels, by purchase.—Major T. Butler, from the 53d Regiment; Major Lord W. Thynne, from the 7th Foot, August 31. To be Captain, without purchase.—Lieutenant W. Cartan, from the 79th Regiment, August 31. BREVET. . . Lieutenant-Colonel A. E:3laCintosh, of the 50th Foot, to be Colonel in the Army, June 2Mth. MEMORANDA. Lieut.-Colonel J. H. Phelps, half-pay Unattached, has been al lowed to retire from the Service, by the sale of an Unattached Lieutenant-Colonelcy, he being about to become a settler in New South Wales, dated Aug. 31. Major-General J. Pringle has been allowed to retire from the Service, by the sale of an Unattached Lieut.-Colonelcy, Aug. 31. The appointment of Major William Cowper Coles, from half • pay Unattached, to be Major in the 2d Regiment of Life Guards, on the 21st May 1829, should be, vice llugh William Barton, who exchanges, and not who exchanges receiving the difference, as pre viously stated. The names of the Gentleman appointed to an Ensigncy in the 13th Foot, on the 17th August, 1838, are Frederick Van Strau benzee, and not William Frederick Straubenzee. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. CHARLES HYACINTHE DUBEC, silk-dyer, Princes street, Spitalfields RALPH STOPFORW:haI-manufacturer, Audenshaw, Ash ton-under-Lyne, to surrender Sept. 14 and Oct. 12, at eleven, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. Kearns, Red Lion square, London; Todd, Manchester. SAMUEL BETTISON, librarian, Margate, Sept. 12, at six, and Oct. 12, at eleven, at the London Hotel, Margate. Boys and Son, Margate ; Egan,: Waterman, and Wright, Essex-street, Strand, London. COAL MARKET.-(THIS D AY.) .last market-day, 91. .r'er Ton. s. Walls End Lambton S3 3 Walls En•J Russel's Hetton 23 0 Walls End Stewart's I Walls End ...... 22 6 Walls End Hartlepool -3 3 Dixon's Buttorknowl --„.. Walls End Barrington Tees 21.1 0 Walls End Clarencg Tees 2O 0 JVnll r End South Durham Walls End St. Helen's Tees lB 6 Walis End Tee, '22 6 Walls End Victoria Tees i l 6 Walls End West Iletton IVlanstoii Main l7 0 NGE.--( THIS DAY.i f iibralLir • 4S Leghorn l4 Genoa ti Mi!an 11 Venice cifj q 9 raltrroo per oz. :17% '2y, Rio Janeiro 27% Bahia Iluevos Ayres -- New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia OF BULLION, Pk H OZ Portugal (1:71.1, ...... 0 0 Fr:relfn Gold, in bars l7 9 New Doubloons ...... 0 0 Dollars Silv,r. bars, standard 0 4 11N Ships arrived sin Per Ton. & a. Adair's llolywell Original Windsor Pontop Willington Wylam 20 0 Walls End Bell and Brown Was End Galorth 22 6 Walls End Heaton 2l 9 Walls End. Hilda ........ 21 0 Walls End Killinzworth 2l 6 Walls End Newmarck 2l 0 Walk End Walker 22 0 Walls End Braddyll'a Hetton 23 0 Walls End Haswell ... 23 0 Walls End Hetton 23 3 COURSE OF EXCIIi Amsterdam C.F. 12 5% Ditto. at sight Rott.ream U. 12 6 Antwerp... El,nburg. ..... 13 12% Nitcna Praia, 3 days' sigh,, • 25 Ditt0....... ............ ..3 Ms. :15 85 1. 1 5 Bouttleaux Frankfort on Maine, ELM. In% NtA - n•anulgh, ruble 3 Us. 10 0 Berlin - Vienne:, effective 1' '2 M. 10 13 Trieste,....ditto lO 14 Af?'lrld Cadiz. flitbna 1g.% Bameiopi ~Cil{C MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of this Evening.) SUGAR.—The good and fine yellow descriptions of British Plantation have been in steady revest by the grocers, and have brought fully previous rates, 61s p•zill for Jamaica ; the importers having submitted to rather lower rates for brown to mid yellow sorts have tempted buyers to come forward more freely, and a good deal of business has been done; the refiners have been the principal operators, and have paid prices from rios to 535; the private sales yesterday exceeded 1,100 hhds and trs : at auction 144 hhds Barbadoes with some spirit at previous rates for the low, but 6d. higher for the Letter de scriptions, fine brought 62s to 63s 6d, good 59s to 61S 6d, low mid and mid 57s to 58s Gd. On the 25th inst. the stock amounted to 32,346 hhds 3,771 tea and 2,227 brls, against 19,537 hhds 2,084 trs and 1,127 brls cn the 26th Aug., 1837. This afternoon there was a good demand both for the scale and pan; in prices there is no further change; the sales for the week are 3,000 hhds and trs. The Refined mihrket con tinues in a dull state, and prices are still on the decline; the home trade have purchased very sparingly of common as well as the better descriptions of goods; 74s 6d to 75s have been accepted for Lumps passing, 73s to 74s for those rather under the standard, and 70e to 71s for brown ones, which rates are 6d to is under those of last week. For export the demand has also been limited, and the purchases have been confined to a few small parcels of double Crushed at 33s 3d, at which there are generally sellers : some of the refiners hold for 33s 6d. INlAuntrics.—There has been only a limited business doing, both grocers and refiners continuing to take only sufficient to supply their immediate wants, and for ord. and mid. descrip tions rather lower prices have been accepted, hut coloury sorts have brought previous rates; at public sale 2,997 bags sold he ,vily, very low brown at 435, mid. grey 50s 6d to 51s, mid and g.:od mid yellow 53s to 565, good 565. Gd to 575. 6d ; at present nothing is declared for public competition; 8,227 bags have arrived since our last; the stock is now 79,540 bags, against 61,456 last year at this period. EAST INDIA._The grocers have purchased more freely of Bengal, and 2,213 bags, at public sale, sold at fully previous rates—fine white brought 65s to 66s 6d, good 63s to 63s 6d, ord 60s 63, mid to fine brown 55s Gd to 575, mid to good yellow 58s to 59; 6d, clamps and washed 54a to 54s 6,1. For Siam there has been no demand by private contract, and none has been offered at auction ; but at lower prices there is no thing offering. Manilla is held for previous rates. Java re mains as last quoted. r This afternoon 50 bags Bengal, at auction, sold at 62s per cwt. FOREIGN.—The market has assumed a more lively appear ance ; the demand at present has been principally for the Me diterranean, and importers have obtained prices which they could not last week; the private transactions have been 900 boxes yellow Havannah of fair dry quality at 265, 500 boxes fine strong white at 395, 80 ditto ord at 375, 120 chests low to good white Pernams at 295, and a cargo of Pernambuco afloat deliverable at Trieste, at 21s for brown, and 31s 3d for white, two-thirds of the latter. MOLASSES.—In West India the operations privately have been trivial, and at rather lower prices. At public sale 44 puns. fair Demerara were taken in at 25s 6d, and 14 puns. common Trinidad at 23s 6d to 245; the stock is nearly 4,000 puns. heavier than at this period last year ; the arrivals this season have exceeded those :of last by 5,130 puns. COFFEE.--British Plantation has been much inquired for by the Grocers, but the demand has been greatly checked by the scanty supply at market ; there have been no public sales, and one of the principal selling brokers having advertised 50 casks for Thusday was unable to make up the quantity. The pur chases privately have been small parcels among the dealers at advanced prices, 115 s paid for mid Berbice. All descriptions of East India, admissible for home consumption, have been much sought after, and higher prices have been paid, but large orders are prevented from being executed by the short supply. Ceylon has brought an advance on previous rates of is; 39 bags at public sale sold readily, fine ord pale at 995, coloury 100 s, ord country damaged 96s 6d, privately 98s has been paid for small parcels of good ord, and 1005 to 101 s for fine ord coloury. For clean garbled Mocha has been obtained. COCOA.—For West India there has been a pretty demand privately at previous rates; none has been offered at auction. Foreign is not wanted. This afternoon 155 bags Trinidad at auction sold at 42s 6d a 46s 6d for low to mid red. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Rum continues in good demand, and previous rates have been fully supported ; of Jamaica 200 puns. have been sold, 28 to 30 per cent. over proof at 4s 4d to 4s 6d, 32 to 35 over 4s 7d to 43 85, 36 to 38 over 4s 91 to 4s 10d, 250 puns. Leewards have also been disposed of, 18 to 20 per cent. over proof at 3s 7d to 3s 9d, 28 to 30 over at 4s 4d to 4s sd, 32 to 35 over 4s 6d to 4s 7d, 38 to 40 over 4s 8d to 4s 9d. Geneva is held firmly, but there has not been much demand. In Brandy there has been a fair business doing, first brands of the vintage of 1836 in puns. at 3s 10d, and 1837 at 3s Bd. In France prices arc on the advance. British Corn Spirits are not higher, but there is some talk of advancing the price. T A LLow.—Petersburgh Yellow Candle prices have ad vanced to 493 3d a 49s 6d for first quality. OlLS.—Sales of Cod made at 361 lOs a 375, pale Seal 371, and several holders now ask 371 10s, brown and yellow have brough 301 a 351, and at public sale this afternoon 350 tuns Southern sold readily at higher rates, common to fine quality brought 241 103 a 221 10s. In Sperm a fair demand at 82l for first quality. The demand for Linseed has rather abated, but under 28s there are no sellers. In Rape prices have advanced to 44s for pale, and 42s for brown. RICE.—At public sale 500 bags Bengal sold readily at 6d. advance, good bold white brought 17s to 17s 6d, rather yellow 165 to 16s 64, damaged 163 to 16s 6d. This afternoon East India was less in demand, and 1,300 bags Bengal at auction sobl 6 , 1 clic : vex; low white and yellow mixed went at 123 to 14... TEA. ecre Las been only a 'united. business since our last, in either black or green descriptions, and the rates pre viously established have been supported ; the deliveries since last Friday have been 425,0001b5. The quantity to be brought forward at the next quarterly sale, is generally expected to be about 200,000 packages. SPICES.—For Sumatra Pepper there has again been a good demand, and previous rates have been fully supported, 3/d paid for common; Malabar there has not been much doing; white was taken in at is 3d to is 7d. Pimento sales of good mid, made at 3d ; East India Ginger, 7,000 bags, &c., at public sale ; Bengal of good quality sold at 20s 6d to 21s, mid, rather wormed 19s to 20s ; Malabar ord. wormy was bought in at 19s to 20s. In Cassia Lignea prices as last quoted. Nutmegs are held for late rates. Cinnamon at trifling profits on last sale's rates. This afternoon 2,000 bags Bengal Ginger at auction went mid and good at 18s 6cl to 20s 6d per cwt. SALTPETRE.—For Rough an advance of 6d a is has been established ; at public sale 5,907 bags Calcutta sold with animation, refraction SA- per cent of fair quality at 24s to 24s 6d, refraction 61-, to 61 rather dingy 24s 6d to 255, refraction 41 good fair quality 255, one lot 25s 6d, refraction 51 et 24s 6d, refraction 3/ to 31 good strong chrystal 255, and refraction 2/ at 255. English Refined export at 30s 6d in hbds, and 31s in barrels. This afternoon Rough continued in good demand, and 774 bags Calcutta at public sale sold readily at previous rates. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. Ellen Murray, a young girl, of rather genteel appearance and manners, was brought before Mr. CHAMBERS and Mr. HALL, on a charge made by policeman Turvey, C 74, of drun kenness, and using indecent language. Mr. CHAMBERS remarked that the girl appeared to,be un known at the office, and on that account he should have acted with her as with all unfortunate women similarly circum. stanced, by dismissing her with a reprimand; but as it had bean sworn she had used indecent language, an offence which he never overlooked, he should send her to prison for a week. The next case was a charge made by the same policeman against a Scotch gentleman of highly respectable appearance, named Robinson. The policeman said the prisoner, Ellen Murray, made so much resistance while on her way to the station-house, that it was necessary for five policemen to carry her there. While engaged with his comrades in their duty the defendant, Mr Robinson, came tip to him and obstructed him in the execu tion of his duty, by seizing him by the collar, and pullin,-2 him forcibly back. Being thus assaulted he desired policeman C 176 to bring the gentleman to the station-house. Mr. Robinson, in explanation, said that himself and a friend, very recently from Scotland, were on their way home down Regent-street, after having visited Astley's Amphi theatre, when he observed a young female in a state of in toxication, being carried alono• with her head downwards by several policemen. Being of the medical profession, and knowing that a very serious injury might ensue to the young woman if the police continued to carry her in that situation, he went up to policeman Turvey, and touched his arm, with the view of drawing his attention to the request that he would let some one hold up the young woman's head. To his great surprise he was given into custody by the policeman, and taken to the station-house. D. Edwards was walking with his friend, Mr. Robinson, at the time of the transaction. Mr. Robinson, out of humanity to the young woman, merely requested the police to carry her head higher, and not to allow her head to dangle near the ground while in such a dangerous state, when he was immedi ately given into custody. He could positively swear that Mr. Robinson did not lay hold of the policeman's collar and drag him back as described. At the station-house the charge would not have been taken, but Mr. Robinson felt too indignant at the manner in which he had been treated, to allow the matter to be settled otherwise than before a magistrate. Policeman C 176 saw Mr. Robinson lay hold of C 74, and at the desire of his brother constable he took Mr. Robinson into custody. Mr. Robinson declared that C 176 told hint when given into his charge that he had no idea of the nature of the com plaint which C 74 bad to make. There was a gentleman, named Davis, an entire stranger, who had seen the whole affair, and who had promised to come forward and make his statement to the bench. _ _ ➢lr. CHAMBERS having directed the case to stand over for a short time, Mr. Davis, tailor, of Bond -street, made his ap pearance, and the charge was resumed. Mr. Davis's testimony was to the effect, that several police :nen were taking a girl to the station-house, and not using sufficient decency or humanity while conveying her there, Mr. Robinson merely laid his hand on the policeman's shoulder to ask him to let the girl's head be held up, when he was given into custody. The policeman was certainly not seized by the collar as he had stated. Another disinterested witness, named Clarkson, corroborated Mr. Robinson's statement in every particular. Mr. CHAMBERS had the evidence of four gentlemen before him, and he could not but come to the conclusicn that the po liceman had sworn that which was false. Magistrates were Ilsvays willing to afford constables the fullest protection in the discharge of their duty, and to discourage unnecessary and vexatious interference on the part of spectators ; but when it was clearly proved that a policeman had acted with violence or impropriety, the Bench would alvtays visit the offence with nroper s-vcrity. He felt bound, therefore, to receive the charge as one of assault against the policeman, and he should, therefore•, impose the tine of three ponnth, or one month's imprisonment. Mr. Robinson interceded on behalf of the constable. Mr. CHAMBERS then remarked, that he had sent Ellen Murray to prison solely on the testimony of the policeman whom he had just convicted, and as he now felt considerable doubts upon the subject, he should remit the punishment he had inflicted. Mr. Davis saw the girl carried down Regent-street. The policeman acted with great indecency, by allowing her clothes to become very much disordered. He very much doubted that bad expressions had been used by her. Mr. CHAMBERS said the girl had already been punished suffi ciently, and he should therefore order her to be released. MAR YLEB ONE. Yesterday two comical-looking young men, named Renshaw and Lardner, the former of whom was said to be a tailor, and tl , e latter a "translator" (not of languages, but of boots and shoes), were brought before the Magistrates, charged under the following somewhat curious circumstances : On the previous evening, the defendants, who domicile in the vicinity of that classic spot 'yclept the " Seven Dials," determined upon breathing a little pure air, and accordingly consuPed together with regard to the suburban place they should resort to ; after much consultation between them as to whether Highgate or Hampstead should be honoured with their presence, the latter village was de clared the favourite, and without loss of time the two friends provided themselves with a quarter of a pound of the best returns," and then hastened on. During their progress the temptations which were held out by sundry flaming announce ments in the gin palaces proved quite irresistible, and in con sequence of the many calls made the " translator," prior to reaching St. Pancras New Church, was pointed at by the passers by as one not merely " agreeably confused," but gloriously drunk. The pair of worthies (the tailor being com• paratively sober) kept on until their arrival in Somers Town, when Henshaw, seeing a wheelbarrow half full of mortar standing in front of the Duke of York, in Phoenix-street, tumbled Lardner into it, and gave him a ride to the adjacent station-house, on reaching which he turned the vehicle upon its side, at the same time telling the sergeant there wr.s a charge of intoxication for him, and without further cere mony ho made his escape. He was quickly pursued, and, having been secured, he and the drunken tenant of the one wheeled vehicle were locked lip for the night. The coat of Lardner was completely covered with mortar, and his appear ance from head to foot, when shot out of the barrow, was grotesque in the extreme. The defendants, who expressed their regret at having con ducted themselves in so ridiculous a manner, were admonished as to their future behaviour, and discharged, QUEEN-SQUARE. Mary Ann Young was yesterday placed at the bar, charged on suspicion of stealing three diamond rings, the property of some person unknown. It appeared that the prisoner went into the shop of a pawn. broker in York-street, Westminster, and offered two of the rings in pledge for 6s. 'William Alpin, the assistant in the firm, interrogated her, and was informed that prisoner did not know they were diamonds, and that she had them given her a few days ago by a sailor, who has since gone to sea. He was not satisfied with this account, and gave her into custody, when a third ring set with diamonds and turquoise was found on her finger. The prisoner when before the Magistrate persisted in her original story. Mr. BURRELL expressed himself far from being satisfied with the account, and remanded the prisoner until Monday. The rings, which are very handsome, are left at this office to be owned. UNION-HALL. A few days ago Jane Evans, a young female, very gaudily dressed, was charged with stealing thirty shillings from an old lady, in whose service she formerly lived. Evans, who had hith e rto borne an exce ll en t c h aracter , took occasion, during a visit she paid to one of her old mis tress's, to take a purse belonging to her, containing in silver the above amount. Th e m one y, h owever , was no t m i sse d until after the departure of the accused, and the person to whom it belonged having described the circumstances under which it was taken, and her suspicions against accused, the latter was accordingly taken into custody. At the time of her apprehension she was dressed in the most gaudy style, with a green silk drawn bonnet on her head, and a bunch of roses and honeysuckles underneath and surrounding her face, which was certainly none of the handsomest. There was some money found in her possession , and in accounting for that circumstance, as well as the showy clothes which she was dressed, and which ill corresponded with a girl in her situation of life, she said that she h a d received the money of her mother, for the purposelof getting married to a young man who had been paying his addresses to her for some time. Magistrate—And have you got married to the young man? Prisoner (crying)—No. He promised to have me. The morning was appointed that he was to marry me, and I was to meet him at the church, but he never came near the place, and left me in the lurch. The Magistrate said it was necessary to have her mother in attendance, in order to ascertain whether it was true she had given her daughter money to get married, and to show that there was a probability that the statement might be true. The prisoner was, therefore, reinutitl,d :or ;1„:t v.trro:; , , Yesterday the cam came on again for I . c-I:baring, tthen the accused's mother being present, she, on being asked, said that on the morning before her daughter wag to have been marrieds she gave her 81. to buy necessary things. 'I he Magistrate asked the mother if she knew the person to whom her daughter was to have been married, and also whe ther she had accompanied her to church on the morning of the disappointment ? To these questions the mother acknowledged that she had but a very slight acquaintance with the young man, as she did not approve of the , connection, and added that she (the mother) did not go with her daughter to the church. The Magistrate asked whether it was known where the faithless lover was gone after he had deceived the poor girl? 't he prisoner (crying)—He has gone off, and I supped that I shall not see him again. I shall throw off these fine things as soon as I am let out of this, and I shall never be l(2:vo another man's promise of marriage in futuro.--• (Laughter.) The 0141 lady who had lost the thirty shillings said that if she had the strongest proof of the felony having been com mitted by the accused she should not think of prosecuting after hearing the scandalous manner i►i which the poor girl h.nl been betrayed by the fellow who professed to be her. sweetheart.—She was then discharged. Mr. William Carroll, druggist, of Eden-quay, 1 714 a period to his existence, by cutting his throat, on Friday last. Sir Nicholas William Brady, City Coroner, called at the re sidence of the deceased on Saturday, and having with 113 " 1/ difficulty obtained admission, was told that the act was com mitted under the influence of a severe attack of brain fever, under which the deceased laboured for some days previous, and that the body was removed and interred the preceding ds evening. The Coroner, on the representation of the frie rs . of the deceased, who arc highly respectable, and as no offi cial notice had been given, retired without further notice.—Dul dits Mail. Died on the 26th of June, at Bybrook, Jamaica, Mrs. Letitia Cox. She outlived the oldest inhabitants in this parish for many generations. By her account she nes e grown up young woman at the time of the destruction f Port Royal by an earthquake. She declared she never drank anything but water during her whole life. She must 'hav e been upwards of 160 years of age. An old black woman, at Holland estate, died 18 months ago, 140 years old. She als° declared she never drank anything but water. Holland is t he property of Wm. Ewart Gladstone, Esq., Member for Newark . —Jamaica Royal Gazette. CRA YFORD CII URCII.—This venerable an d re' markable structure is undergoing complete repair. The fol lowing curious epitaph in the church-yard generally a ttract' the attention of the pedestrian :---" Here lies the body t : Peter Isnell, thirty years clerk of this parish. He lived re spected as a pious and worthy man, and died en his val.,' to church to assist at a wedding, on the 31st of August, 1 811; aged 70. The inhabitants of Crayford raised this stone ~, his cheerful memory, and as tribute to his faithful services " The life of this clerk was just threescore and ten, Nearly half of which time he had sung out Amen ! In his youth he was married, like other young men; But his wife died one day, so he chaunted Amen ! A second he took : she departed ; what then? He courted and married a third with Amen. Thus his joys and his sorrows were doubled ; but then His voice was deep bass as he sung out Amen. On the horn he could blow as well as most men, So his horn was exalted in blowing Amen 1 But he lost all his wind at threescore and ten; And here, with three wives, he waits till again The trumpet shall rouse him to sing out Amen 1" , ROBB ERI ES.—Y es t er d a y the police received jow l .' mation of the f o ll ow i ng ro b e ries. On Sunday night las e r dashingly-dressed man, app aren tly a f ore i gner , l e f t the g Inn, Cheltenham, whe re h e h a d b een stay i ng on l y tw o del"' o andsoon after his departure it was di scovere d t h at two f th e bed-rooms had been plundered of about . twenty sovereigns, tic° five-pound notes of th e D evon an d C ornwa ll B an k , togethere with two gold chain s an d some sea l s. O n one o f t he le:, articles was engraven the motto " Rehuso que defecere 1 11 ° T b ". dedecorant bone n a t e culpm ;" the person suspected of the r ° e bery is described as being between thirty and forty years ofd about five feet seven inches high ; he was attired in a . r th frock coat, light waistcoat and trousers, and spoke w it , a French accent. A reward has been offered for his a l: prehension. On the same evening a packing-case, C e " .- taining a quantity of valuable jewellery and wearing : 1) : parel, the property of Mr. Tuxford, 24, Norfolk-str eP'O Strand, was stolen from the back part of a phaeton, betel; the King's Arms, Holborn-bridge, and Camden Town- Monday night, a short, stout, well-dressed man, obtain ea e under false pretences twelve yards of Irish linen, and c han t. for a five-pound note, from the shop of Mr. Trill, l•le 15 `, : street, Greenwich ; and on the following night (Tn es " af ~', last) Mr. Gifton, who is staying at the Craven Hotel, Cra+e"er street, Strand, was robbed in Vauxhall Gardens of a 01/ Geneva watch. At the police-office (Liverpool) one of the CO P ; stables of St. John's Market preferred a charge egai ll o s i t a female for stealing some butter. He said be saw her g t $ away in a great hurry from a stall and endeavouring to Pti, o. , pound of butter in her pocket. He stopped her, and en quiry found that she had stolen the butter. He searched " er ai.:l round in her pocket a tumbler glass, a knife and .ijorie and nine eggs I all of which he found she had stolen. take n of the parties appeared against her from whom she ha - . these thing,, and she was ordered to be discharged. -- L pool Standard. QUEEN ELIZABETH AND HER, TIMES. '- The Editor's object in arranging and publishing the mass of letters of which this book is form e d, was to d o f or English hist°l.l what Percy has done fo r E ng li s h poe t r y—t o give its 'l b ; ments to the public in a popular and amusing form. „.„,:„. letters bear date thr oug h the whole of the 45 years of r- 1 ";.,"d beth's reign —fr o m 1558, w h en h er am b assa d ors , Cobham a'i. ; NVotton, notified the Queen's accession to Philip in the Nnt h t ,,,, ; lands, until 1603, w h en C am d en wr i tes o f " the exee s a t sleepless disposition" w hi c h was t o en d i n t wo days in the :Tv long sl ee p o f d eat h. I t i s difficult to fix upon a period of t l e , tory where th e p ersonages an d events d escr ib e d are se l il a / resting, and we are here enabled to view both as ele n a w n almost, as if th e y were c h aracters an d occurrence s of our v• o f day. We cordially recommend the work- to the rea ders English history.— Times. f r be NEW N OVEL , E DITED BY L. E. 5 ;, t new Novel, entitl e d " D uty an d I nc li na ti on ," w hich has 1 1 , 3 0 appeared, is w e h ave reason to suspect , somet hi n g more `" of " edited" by Miss Landon. Like the simple wild-flevi er t be the forest, afte r it h as passe d un d er t h e s kilf u l bands of vi experienced ho r ti cu l tur i st , " Duty and Inclination" 1155 of dently been trim me d and cultivated by the practised P e o d our most popular female writer, till all its natural line s ol d fragrance have been duly drawn forth to court and coen tl e of that sunshine of popular favour, which they so well meri t ' which will doubtle ss ca ll f ort h new s h oots f rom t h e sarn e h „ - de. and genial soil. " D u ty an d I nc li nat i on " b e l ongs to c t " - jsh lightful school of Miss A us ti n — a sc h oo l w hi c h all 'P;i'lliss females should feel it to b e no l ess t h e i r " d uty ," than i f in ever been their "inclination," to support with all th e " fluen H ce. 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COX SAVORY offers for selection, arranged in his Sibs Rooms, a most extensive variety of CORNER DISHES. , 0 % Set of Four varies in price from Seven to Ten Guineas. T. r SAVORY, Working Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchte i-e 47, Cornhill, London (Seven Doors from Gracechareh-strew)' N.B.—The Handles are mach. , to remove from the Covers, may he used as Dishes ; thus the Set will form Eight Dishes• il required. BIRTH'S'. f On the 29th inst., in Half Moon-street, Piccadilly, th e lad/ °f Dr. C. J. B. Williams, of a son. Robert On the 28th inst., at Manor-house, Chiswick, the lady of Bell, Esq., of a son. __..---- MARRIED. DO ;01 On the 27th inst., at Alverstok e Ch urc h, near Gosport , „ i os, Quarrier, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of Hampshire, to Eliz, n - beg' relict of the Hey. C. B. P. L ow th er , M . A ., l ate R ector 0, A • in er'l, ton St. George, Wilt s , d aug ht er o f P . C a llb ec k , E s q., w r o irs' Attorney-General of Pri nce Ed w a r d' s I s l an d, an d n i e ce a Sir I. Coffin, Bart. to A'' '' On the 25th inst.. at St. James's, John Stuart, Egg: , j eel'' Smith Cummins, of Cadogan-place, widow of G. Cummins' of Barbadoes. c leri °f On the 29th inst., at St. Mary's, Newington, Surrey, F i l t er Bowker, Esq., of Winchester, to Eleanor, youngest claug W. Bouts, Esq., of New Kent-road. ~,,,. ICia' At St. Matthew's, Brixton, on the 28th inst., Mr. "• of Peckham-rye, to Mrs. A. T. Howard, of Camberwell• o f t 2 1 .6 On the 28th inst., at Bedfont, Samuel Martin, Egg'', of ''',. Middle Temple, barrister-at-law, to Fanny, eldest daugh te r F. Pollock, M.D. s o rt ' On the 28th inst., at St. John's, Hackney, Mr. Thom Goul d ' jun., of Lower Clapton, to Ann, eldest daughter of Thos. smith, Esq., of Bristol. On the 28th inst., at St. J o h n ' s Ch urc h, I lenti Hanysteed,,,bter °f Hermann Von Dadelszen, Esq., to Mary Anne, second cla u * as the late D. S. Turne r , Esq., of Clarendon, Jamaica. Tbut ° . On the 28th inst., a t S t . J o h n ' s C hurch, H amps tead, forth Hayle, Esq., M.D., of D e ddi ngton, Ozon, to Sarah W I T% aice' daughter of the lat e D. S. T urner, Esq., of Cla ncloa-re DIE . ed, On the 28th i ns t., Anne Elizabet D h, wife of William . 11 G Esq., of New Burlington -street. f . l CO W On the 28th inst., at Addirgton-place, Camberwell, - iil 1 rine wife of Mr. W. Hewitt,aged 39. A l Ran d" On the 27th inst., in Geo a rie-street, Ncw-road, ...-r° , natt Kinnersley. On the .sth of July, at Demerara aged 23, The°Pb A itus e r e :°r °I Richmond, M.D. son of the late Rev. Legh Riehme n i T eary mo p. Turvey, Bedfordshire. On the 28th inst., aged 51, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. ' 9 ( l'' well, of Milton -street,-Dorset-square. nn of On the 26th inst., John Fielder, only son of J. J. J01",.1 15 ° 14 of Duke-street, Grosvenor-square, aged 13 months. eldest s-- On the 28th inst., Henry Alfred Harris, aged `2 2, rat J. J. Harris, of Upper East Smithfield. a D li" On the 26th inst., after a seve re illness, Mr. Kuctioneer, of Oldham-place, Clerkouvrell, aged 52. _ ___ -, 0, .... ,, ..iu, ..., if Leu.lon . Printed and PuLlnWt,l LI MUILDU 'lu .,,,, t ke ell 04P -112, Strand, at The Sun Office , No. 112, 51;rati" ,1- of lEckilesex.—Friday, August 31, 1838- Richar t, •. f'.